by lindaoppenheim | Sep 13, 2018 | Documents
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has released its 2018 report “An Assessment of Minority Voting Rights Access in the United States.” Commission Chair Catherine E. Lhamon said that the report “reflects the reality that citizens in the United...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 9, 2018 | Opinion
Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler professor of African American studies at Emory University, gives numerous examples of black voter suppression in the 21st century. Click here to read the complete essay.
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 18, 2018 | Podcast
In “Buried Truths,” a six-episode podcast, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Hank Klibanoff dramatically narrates the case of Isaiah Nixon, an African American man killed for voting in Georgia in 1948. The program grew out of a class, Georgia...